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Jekyll-based static site for The Programming Historian
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deprecated lessons not clear that they're so #144

Closed acrymble closed 9 years ago

acrymble commented 9 years ago

@fredgibbs and I just got an email about a problem with a deprecated lesson. Other than the URL there's nothing there to suggest that it's now deprecated. I don't think we should REMOVE these lessons in case someone has a syllabus that relies upon it. But maybe we need to think about a flag that makes it obvious to people that we won't be updating them any longer? If indeed that will be our policy.

ianmilligan1 commented 9 years ago

I agree - maybe a separate section of the Programming Historian for archived lessons? And perhaps a persistent banner along the top, noting that the lesson is depreciated and may not work on your system.

fredgibbs commented 9 years ago

i concur. although it seems like in this case the emailer was simply web trolling for a particular link to offer a competing resource to any webpage that had it. i don't think many of our deprecated URLs are really used anymore (they obviously didn't have deprecated in the URL to begin with). but in case anyone stumbles on one (btw, are these in our robots.txt file?), we should be clearer they are likely to be broken in many ways.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Ian Milligan notifications@github.com wrote:

I agree - maybe a separate section of the Programming Historian for archived lessons? And perhaps a persistent banner along the top, noting that the lesson is depreciated and may not work on your system.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/144#issuecomment-148970767 .

frederick w gibbs | assistant professor of history | univ. of new mexico fredgibbs.net | @fredgibbs http://www.twitter.com/fredgibbs

wcaleb commented 9 years ago

I added a banner. Looking more closely at the lessons in the deprecated folder, all but one of them is basically just a stub, and I can't imagine anyone still linking to the one that isn't. Perhaps we should just consider deleting them all. @fredgibbs I'm not sure there's a way to have a GitHub Pages robots.txt file. We don't currently have one, as far as I know.

acrymble commented 9 years ago

The Getting Started one is decent, so I wouldn't like to see it deleted. It just doesn't fit the way we have our lessons going these days. But if the others aren't anything, then I suppose you're right.

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 4:25 PM, W. Caleb McDaniel <notifications@github.com

wrote:

I added a banner. Looking more closely at the lessons in the deprecated folder, all but one of them http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/deprecated/getting-started is basically just a stub, and I can't imagine anyone still linking to the one that isn't. Perhaps we should just consider deleting them all. @fredgibbs https://github.com/fredgibbs I'm not sure there's a way to have a GitHub Pages robots.txt file. We don't currently have one, as far as I know.

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